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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN =
class=800163015-06071999>Greetings,
List.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=800163015-06071999>A =
friend of mine
has a 25-year-old Yamaha vertical that was in a house =
fire.
The piano itself will be OK, but there was some smoke smell in it. =
They
hired a company that cleans carpet to clean their furniture and =
rugs.
They used a process in which all the smoke-affected items were placed =
into a
large trailer and "ozonated." (I'm not sure if that is a real =
word, but
they continously circulated ozone into the trailer for four days in =
order
to remove the smoke smell.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=800163015-06071999>The =
piano was among
the items inside the trailer, and it came out with no smell =
whatsoever.
This was the first that I had heard of such a process. Does anyone =
know
much about it?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=800163015-06071999>Thanks.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Formsma</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=800163015-06071999>P.S. =
The cost of
this procedure was $1500. It was amazing to see the difference in =
the
rugs, which before were sooty, and now are clean. All their =
furniture was
salvaged, and the $1500 was money well spent considering what it would =
have cost
to replace it all.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>